Welcome, Gabriel. I'm looking forward to working with you, and to seeing you posting on the parser/visual editor list about our progress on that very important endeavor! cc'ing the parser list (wikitext-l).
Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Alolita Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Please join me in welcoming Gabriel Wicke as a Software Developer in > WMF’s Features Engineering team. Gabriel will be working on the > Visual Editor - Parser project, one of Wikimedia’s high priority > projects this year. He will be working closely with our guru Brion > Vibber on extending the parser to support WikiDom interactions with > the Visual Editor client being developed by lead engineer Trevor > Parscal, Wikia developer Inez Korczyński and front-end developer Neil > Kandalgaonkar. > > As many of you may already know, Gabriel has been member of the > Wikipedia community for many years now. He discovered Wikipedia in > 2003, when it was still running on two servers. Using his previous > experience with Squid caching, he got involved in technical > discussions and hacking. In 2004, Gabriel designed and implemented the > initial Squid caching layer, and later wrote the MonoBook skin. > > After completing his Computer Science degree and doing research in > transactional distributed systems and Haskell, Gabriel is looking > forward to more practical challenges at Wikimedia. > > Gabriel is an avid sportsman and professional sailor. When he’s not in > front of a computer coding away, he is often sailing on his own or > with friends. He was a member of the German national team in the > Olympic 49er class from 2001-2008, and is now racing an A-Class > catamaran. Pretty awesome! > > Say hello to Gabriel online. He can be found on #mediawiki as gwicke. > > Welcome back Gabriel! Great to have you on the Wikimedia Features team :-) > > Alolita > -- > Alolita Sharma > Director, Features Engineering > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitext-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l
